At this meeting he told us that our plaster would be going up the following week (I'm a little behind on posting!) and that if we wanted to over the weekend we could put in some extra insulation in the walls. As we had been charged a lot of money to do 1 1/2 walls we thought we would jump at the chance to do this.
We got my parents down to help and our best mates over and made a day of it. First up was a trips to the house to work out what walls we would do and roughly how much insulation we would need. Then off to Bunnings to get supplies and lunch of course - who can resist a snag in bread!
While at Bunnings we discovered that they didn't really stock the old school 'batts' in the rating we wanted for the walls but did discover a great product. It is called Earthwool - multipurpose insulation rolls. At $30 a roll (for the smaller width roll) it was great value.
We spent a good 3hrs at the house installing the insulation but we have now insulated nearly every internal wall which will hopefully help a little sound as well as heating / cooling cost. BTW for the price to do the marjority of internal walls it was still cheaper than doing the 1 1/2 walls of the sound insulation through PD!
Take a look at our handy work below - i think for a first time at doing it we did pretty well! It also felt great to be able to complete something on our new house :)
Did you just fit the insulation in the gaps or did you have to secure it somehow?
ReplyDeleteThere was two sizes of insulation that we bought to match the gap between beams. Once cut to the correct height (we added an inch in length) they fitted in great and did not need to be secured. We checked a few nights later and it was still all in place for the plasters guys to do their job :)
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